1. USAID's Disclosure of Local Partner Info Raises Troubling Questions
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, reconstruction, chemonics, dai, aid)

... Beltway (DC, Maryland, Virginia). The largest of these beltway contractors is Chemonics International, which has received $173.7 million from USAID since the earthquake. The company came under criticism ...

2. Breaking Open the Black Box: Increasing Aid Transparency and Accountability in Haiti
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, chemonics)

Today, CEPR released a new report authored by Jake Johnston and Alex Main on USAID in Haiti. The paper looks at the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance, what we know about how it is being administered, ...

3. Is the US Overstating What it's Done for Shelter?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, usaid, shelter, chemonics, iom, chf international)

The White House issued a press release yesterday detailing the US government's response to the earthquake in Haiti. The release included this: USAID has provided 160,000 plastic sheets and 24,500 family ...

4. Food Aid Undermines Local Producers
(Matching tags: usaid, fao, food crisis, chemonics, agriculture, comet rice, us rice, food aid)

*This post has been edited slightly for accuracy. The AP reports today on the effects of US rice on Haitian farmers: Subsidized U.S. rice has flooded Haiti for decades. Now, after the Jan. 12 quake, ...

5. Taking Stock Three Years Later: A Prelude
(Matching tags: aid distribution, chemonics, ngos, aid coordination, ihrc, housing)

... efforts, examining the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, the agency and NGO coordination “clusters” and the Caracol industrial park, among other aspects. She also reports on contractors such as Chemonics, ...

6. The Development-Industrial Complex in Haiti
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics)

... that matter), Chemonics has received some $177 million of this total. With such a large amount of resources going to one company, you might expect there to be vigilant oversight and strict guidelines. ...

7. Inspector General Finds Lack of Oversight of Chemonics…Again
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics, inspector general)

The USAID Inspector General (OIG) released an audit this weekend of Chemonics’ Haiti Recovery Initiative II program (HRI-II), funded by USAID. HRI-II, the successor to the HRI program which began right ...

8. Op-Ed: Haiti's Fight for Transparency
(Matching tags: usaid, chemonics, transparency, accountability, local procurement)

CEPR Researcher Jake Johnston wrote in the Caribbean Journal yesterday: In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, donors pledged billions of dollars for reconstruction efforts. With those dollars ...

9. USAID-Funded Parliament Building Still Vacant 4 Months After “Inauguration”
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, chemonics, dai)

Jacob Kushner and Jean Pharés Jérôme of Global Post report today on the high-profile USAID project to build a temporary building for Haiti’s parliament. Although the $1.9 million building was “inaugurated” ...

10. PDT Survey Looks at Efforts to Improve and Increase Local Procurement
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics, ngos, haitian ngos, aid, economy, job creation)

Peace Dividend Trust (PDT), an organization that has been in Haiti since 2009, released a study last week (PDF) on the construction sector in Haiti based on surveys with both procurement officers of international ...